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GATE 2018 EE – Question 1

General Aptitude · Verbal Aptitude: Grammar and Vocabulary · 1 mark · Multiple choice

"Since you have gone off the ________, the ________ sand is likely to damage the car."

The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are

  1. course, coarse
  2. course, course
  3. coarse, course
  4. coarse, coarse

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Correct answer: (A) course, coarse

Explanation

Going off the "course" (path) and "coarse" (rough) sand are the correct words.